Only 1% of people are using Google Docs

I’ve spent a lot of time poking around for interesting tips and tidbits to share with you here, and some of it makes me roll my eyes and exclaim at my computer that something “isn’t news!!” but this little statistic made me sit up and take notice.

Now, I love google docs. I’ve got manuscripts living there, the ability to work on them offline as well as when I’m on, and the spreadsheets generally rock my world, not to mention that watching someone else edit the document you’re editing at the same time can make me lose hours at a time!

Because of this, I was surprised to find out that the survey completed recently by market research firm, Clickstream Technologies found out that not only is Google Docs useage low compared to other suites, of the 2,400 standing panel of US internet users who did use Google Docs also used Microsoft Office at the same time.

I never really thought about it, and I don’t have Office installed on this computer, but I did put Open Office in when I needed to open a word document. I am trying to figure out if that’s because old habits die hard and I forget that I can do all that work I would normally do in Office, I can do in Google Docs, or that it just doesn’t occur to me (which actually seems kinda like the same thing).

So, are you a Google Docs user? Do you still use a locally based office suite as well?